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Pudding Tame said:
MIRANDA: Sorry Arby, that was before I went Brute. Now I want nothing else up my chute.
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I DID IT! I FREAKING DID IT! SOLO LEGENDARY RUN-THROUGH IS COMPLETE!!!!!

That was the coolest gaming experience I ever had.

Every battle was so dynamic, I felt like I was always in danger and that the enemy I was facing was actually another thinking being. It just feels right.

I don't know how I can ever go back to anything lower than Legendary. The battles are just so much better on Legendary. It was awesome to see how much my skills evolved throughout my campaign. By the time I reached the end level, I thought I was going to be fucked by how hard it was when I first played it on a lower difficulty. Strangely, I went through it with ease.

If thier is one thing I wish all Halo fans could experience, I would want them to play Halo 3 on legendary. It is just so awesome, I can't really put it into words.

Bravo Bungie! I knew that Halo 3 was a great game when I played through on Heroic, but now going back through on Legendary I can say with full confidence that it is the best singleplayer experience I have ever had, bar none.
 
snack said:
I DID IT! I FREAKING DID IT! SOLO LEGENDARY RUN-THROUGH IS COMPLETE!!!!!

That was the coolest gaming experience I ever had.

Every battle was so dynamic, I felt like I was always in danger and that the enemy I was facing was actually another thinking being. It just feels right.

I don't know how I can ever go back to anything lower than Legendary. The battles are just so much better on Legendary. .
Totally agree.

It's wierd. I don't know what it is about Halo, but controlling other FPS's on console seems stiff. While playing Portal, I didn't feel like I had complete controll of the game. I'm worried about how it'll be when I get to Half-Life.
 
snack said:
I DID IT! I FREAKING DID IT! SOLO LEGENDARY RUN-THROUGH IS COMPLETE!!!!!

That was the coolest gaming experience I ever had.

Every battle was so dynamic, I felt like I was always in danger and that the enemy I was facing was actually another thinking being. It just feels right.

I don't know how I can ever go back to anything lower than Legendary. The battles are just so much better on Legendary. It was awesome to see how much my skills evolved throughout my campaign. By the time I reached the end level, I thought I was going to be fucked by how hard it was when I first played it on a lower difficulty. Strangely, I went through it with ease.

If thier is one thing I wish all Halo fans could experience, I would want them to play Halo 3 on legendary. It is just so awesome, I can't really put it into words.

Bravo Bungie! I knew that Halo 3 was a great game when I played through on Heroic, but now going back through on Legendary I can say with full confidence that it is the best singleplayer experience I have ever had, bar none.
So true. I've never played a game that was such a different experience from one difficulty to the other. I played through Halo 2 on Legendary - once. But it was hard for all the wrong reasons. Legendary solo was hard, but I always thought it was fair. And hot damn, was it a lot of fun.

After I'm through with Puzzle Quest, I'll be down for some co-op play with you guys. :D
 
GhaleonEB said:
So true. I've never played a game that was such a different experience from one difficulty to the other. I played through Halo 2 on Legendary - once. But it was hard for all the wrong reasons. Legendary solo was hard, but I always thought it was fair. And hot damn, was it a lot of fun.

After I'm through with Puzzle Quest, I'll be down for some co-op play with you guys. :D
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My BR aiming skills vastly improved from shooting all those grunt heads and jackals on legendary.
I always take out the grunts from far off, cause their big numbers on legendary make it quite hard.

I'd like to join in on the co-op (still need to do a few levels on co-op legendary), but I'm too tired atm.

To get the meta-game achievements I played through the entire game on Normal + Tough Luck + Catch + Fog + Famine + Mythic + Cow Bell + IWBYD. It's a fun challange, mainly from all the grenades and the brutes having very thick armor. As your armor is very tough too, it's noob friendly and you can afford to make mistakes.
 
I beat The Ark and The Covenant today. The Covenant is the best Halo mission ever.

- storm the beach like in Silent Cartographer
- double scarab battle
- Aerial battles
- Awesome brute pack fights
- unbelievably epic

I really hope the next mission is short, since it looks like I'll be dealing with the flood in High Charity
 
Looks like my Halo 3 glass roof is at around level 20. Every time I approach it I start to get my ass handed to me. Against levels around 15 I'm still doing good, but climbing from there results in a massive disaster usually. Was same in Halo 2, iirc.
 
Ugh. My 360 froze 3 times today.. one in guide button menu, the other loading Floodgate and the last, as the ending before the credits was coming to an end...

:( Plz be cache fuck-up :(

What is the button code?

Edit: to clear cache, of course.
 
numbers said:
Ugh. My 360 froze 3 times today.. one in guide button menu, the other loading Floodgate and the last, as the ending before the credits was coming to an end...

:( Plz be cache fuck-up :(

What is the button code?

Edit: to clear cache, of course.
I froze mid-match in a game the other night. Counted as a quit. I lost exp. It was crap.
 
numbers said:
Ugh. My 360 froze 3 times today.. one in guide button menu, the other loading Floodgate and the last, as the ending before the credits was coming to an end...

:( Plz be cache fuck-up :(

What is the button code?

Edit: to clear cache, of course.

Here it is:
Go to the system blade and then select memory.

Press Y on the HD symbol and then press X,X,Left Bumper, Right Bumper, X,X. Once you do this a messsage will appear saying: Do you want to perform maintenance on your Xbox 360 storage devices?
 
Is anyone else having a lot of inconsistent games in halo 3? I mean I was like like 33 or something and now im like 29, I either end up getting 3 terrible noobs against 4 gods or I myself end up dragging 3 good players down :/
 
goldenpp72 said:
Is anyone else having a lot of inconsistent games in halo 3? I mean I was like like 33 or something and now im like 29, I either end up getting 3 terrible noobs against 4 gods or I myself end up dragging 3 good players down :/

I had this yesterday (see my post above). I had games where my spread was +10 or more, often +7, then suddenly it shifted to -7, leaving me scratching my head thinking I've peaked at just short of 20.
 
Tieno said:
My BR aiming skills vastly improved from shooting all those grunt heads and jackals on legendary.
I always take out the grunts from far off, cause their big numbers on legendary make it quite hard.

Grunt Birthday Party is a major boon to headshot accuracy. There's nothing more disappointing than killing a grunt and not getting the "Yay" chorus and a hail of streamers.
 
Everytime I boot up my 360, start up Halo 3 and get into matchmaking, I always have to let it run for a bit, then sign out of Live and sign back in before I can actually get a game. Does anyone else have this problem? ( It says that the connection has been lost to live, I'm not just randomly resetting, it's more or less making me do it. )
 
TommyT said:
Everytime I boot up my 360, start up Halo 3 and get into matchmaking, I always have to let it run for a bit, then sign out of Live and sign back in before I can actually get a game. Does anyone else have this problem? ( It says that the connection has been lost to live, I'm not just randomly resetting, it's more or less making me do it. )
Yeah, the same thing happens to me.

Also, nearly every time I jump into a private chat or multi-player game (any game, not just Halo 3), I get disconnected after a few minutes. Once I sign back in, I'm good to go until I turn my machine off.
 
Agent Zero Replies

There's this thing called experience points. You get experience points for winning games. Before anybody knew about winning social games, they played ranked games. You play ranked games to get your medals up. Then one day I came across a guy who had an eagle by his Halo profile and he only had 50 ranked games. I was like, 'Wait I minute, I have 178 ranked games, I don't have an eagle!'

But this guy had 550 social games won, so I'm like, 'What the hell is a social game?'

So I go to him, 'I'll give you a jersey if you tell me what you're doing.'

He said 'OK' and he explained it to me. He said, 'You play social games and you get the points too.'

So I said, 'Social games are matched?'

And he said, 'No, social games are not matched.'

'So you can win a social game, which is not ranked, and get the points still?'

'Yeah. What I do is just play two-on-two with my friends and they just lose to me and it gets my experience points up.'

'That's it?'

'Yeah.'

'Allllllllllllll right!'

So I play Halo with a whole bunch of kids online and my one friend said that if I really wanted the eagle that he would lose all the games to me, because he didn't really care.

He said, 'I don't care about experience points because at the end of the day, I'm still good.'

So how is that cheating? I still don't understand it.

So for all the Halo people who don't understand what I'm talking about, this is just like if you were playing Madden online and you find a kid you can beat down on and you keep sending him challenges so you can get wins. It's the same thing. Or in basketball games, if you're playing somebody online and beat him by 30 points and he says, 'Rematch?' and you say, 'OK!' you already know you can beat him, so you play him again just so you can get your points up and your rank up. That's all that is.

So let me explain this eagle thing I wanted. It's an honor. It's a little patch that goes onto a shirt. It has nothing to do with your skill level. Whatever your skill level is ' 32 or 50 or five ' that's what you are. Your experience points are just about the games you won.

The guy who taught me the trick played only like 50 ranked games and 550 social games. I have a level 42 for ranked games. I have to play ranked games against ranked people to get better. Nobody is going to help me win there, because it's a ranked game and nobody wants to lose a ranked game.

But a social game doesn't affect your rank.

So when you have a major, a double major or a triple major or a burger dot (or whatever they call that eagle thing), all it is is for show. So when I go into a match and my opponent sees that eagle, they'll be like, 'Dang, you play a lot.'

That's all that means.

They're not going to say, 'Dang, you're good!' They're going to say, 'Dang, you play a lot.'

At the end of the day they look at your rank to see how good you are. Your major is just for show. So if you have an eagle and only have won like 10 ranked games, they're going to be like, 'Man, you're garbage.'

They're calling me a cheater for somebody giving me wins all day but they should be calling him the cheater for disgracing the integrity of the game. I didn't make him do it, I didn't ask for it.

There's been thousands of kids who have lost to me. Most of the time it was because of my talent, the other ones were because I said I'd give them a jersey!

Here's another example. If you beat Halo you can collect these skulls. And if you get all 13 skulls you get a special helmet and outfit for your guy. So for the first couple days, everybody was beating the game but nobody was getting the special helmet because they couldn't find the 13th skull.

One kid cracked it.

Only one person cracked it. That one person told somebody else, who told somebody else, who told somebody else and then what happened was the one person who knew how to get the skull called up a group of friends, invited them to join his party and told them that they can play with him and that he'd go through all the boards and find all the skulls and do all the work and since they'll all be joining in with him, they'll get the achievement points too.

So he went through all the boards and it only took him like five or six hours because he already knew how to do it, and everybody in his party got the special helmet and didn't do anything for it.

If that's not cheating, then what my fan did for me shouldn't be cheating either. We're not cheating anybody. We're not slowing down somebody else's modem or doing something else to beat them.

This was just my fan saying, 'Hey, I want you to have the eagle. I'll give you the eagle by losing games to you.'

And come on people, if I found out about it and did it, there has to be other people out there doing it too. I can't help it if Agent Arenas is a popular guy online and gets offers like that.

Come on, there are people out there that have double shot modded controllers, they have modded Xboxes, they have this new thing (and I'm not even sure how you do it) where you put a rubber band around your controller handles so it will go only right and if it goes right the whole time something happens where the game won't cut off and you keep winning or something like that.

Who is finding out about this stuff? Who is sitting there putting rubber bands on their controllers?

At least I'm there playing the game. I play Halo some days for 14 hours. If I play that much, obviously I know how to play. A guy online told me how he got his experience points up and I said, 'OK, I want that too.'

I had already won 216 games legitimately when I heard about this glitch. It's not like I'm not playing all the time.

I mean, I've sponsored Final Boss for the last couple years and they're the best team in Halo. I'm too proud to jump in a game with them to help me get my rank up. If I really wanted to win that bad, all I would have to do is jump in a game with Final Boss when they go up against all of the top kids in the game and just sit there, eat my cereal and watch as they win every game and get my rank up.

How hard is that? That's not hard. But I didn't do it.

This is like in Mario Brothers where if you jumped on a shell and hit it against the stairs and as long as you time it right, you keep getting the 1 UP and have infinity lives. Same thing with Contra. You do the up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right and now you have the infinity ammo and infinity lives. That's cheating. But if I'm playing Streetfighter, and he lets me win, why is that considered cheating?

You should be mad at that kid for giving me the victory. Don't be mad at me for accepting the victory.

What should I be like, 'I know you lost, but I'm not going to take this win, sorry.'

Last year when I played NBA LIVE online and was 117-15. Sure, 80 of the wins were against my friend, but hey, he's easy. It wasn't about skills, it was for show. When somebody wanted to play me, they would see my 117-15 record and automatically think I was good (which I was), but it was the point that it intimidated them.

The same thing with the eagle thing in Halo 3. If you see that eagle on your screen when you're going to play me, you're automatically going to think I'm good.

All that happened was that I went from a single major to a double major because he said he'd lose 100 games to me.

Know what was funny, I got all my Halo friends together and we challenged all the kids that were telling me I was sorry, and that I suck and that I'm a cheater and we played a game against them. My team was called the 'Bad Guys' because apparently I'm the bad guy for accepting wins from somebody. So we played my haters last night and they got destroyed. Oh man, they got destroyed.

Half the kids, they're not even mad. At first I got so many messages that were angry. One kid was like, 'You're a disgrace to Halo.' He said, 'People like you make it hard for people like us to get better because we sit here for six hours a day playing this to get better.' I was like, 'That sounds fun. I don't mean to be the bad guy here, but, I play 14 hours a day. Regularly. I know the rules and what cheating is. What I'm doing is not cheating.'

At the end of the day I'm still ranked in the top 30 in the world, even without the experience. Go check the leaderboard. That's all my skill. The leaderboard doesn't have anything to do with experience points, it just has to do with experience. Microsoft must have sold millions of copies of Halo and I'm still ranked No. 30 in the world. My swag is phenomenal right now, remember that. Like Kanye said, 'You can't tell tell me nothing, riiighhht.' To my favorite haters -- Biggs V2 and Hellhogace -- I'm ranked even without the so-called 'cheating.'

And MC187, you get the bonus prize. This is your five days of fame. PTI picked it up and now I'm mentioning you in my blog. This is the only way you're going to get famous because it's not going to be through Halo. I looked at your rank, you aren't very good. You might not be skilled at the game, but I know what your skill is -- looking at everybody else's accounts to see who's cheating. So keep it up baby, I'm rooting for you.

One more thing, a big thanks to Aircalbev for supporting me in this time of tragedy on the Bungie message board of hatred towards Agent Arenas. I also want to give a shout out to some of my fallen solidiers - Cashis Clayis and Baby Jesus - for helping through these turbulent times and I would like to thank God for giving me the man power and the heart and mind to stay up and keep playing Halo to the best of my ability. Now I got to do the "Marion Jones" thing: Sorry to all my friends and family who believed in me. I disgraced my Halo friends' names.

LOL. I'm a beast in Halo 3.

P.S. I am teaching "cheating" lessons at 12 midnight, every night on how to be a professional cheater on Halo. I'm just kidding, I shouldn't have said that,.


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Dude, if I spent hours of my life in a bunch of Did Not Finish games, I think I'd check my ego at the door and just say, "Yeah, I'm a chump." The more this guy posts about this, the more foolish he looks.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to the store to pick up some Merit Badges I didn't earn. No big deal. Anyone can buy them and sew them on their vests. I'm thinking canoing and rock climbing today. I'm awesome. Kanye West quote goes here.
 
Agent Arenas has a 1.08 K/D ratio and a painfully sparse medal chest (only 5 killing frenzies and nothing higher). So where is this leaderboard he is top 30 on? I'm thinking with my K/D ratio of 1.74 and highest skill 46, I have to be higher up than him.

I agree with Urk, if you have a shitload of DNFs, I wouldn't be bragging, cause all you're bragging about is empty victories.
 
snack said:
My campaign through Halo 3 on Legendary continues on..

I just finished playing Crow's Nest on Legendary, and holy shit do I have a new found respect for the level design and weapon placement.

The first brute pack encounter is just holy shit, oh my god, fucking amazing. It took probably over fifteen times, but once I finally killed the Cheiftain, I felt SO FUCKING GOOD!

It was one of the most beautifully crafted enemy encounters I have ever been apart of.

I got lucky when I played through on heroic. I used a grav lift, just shot the bastards that followed me up there, and then the chief brute got himself stuck behind some machinery and was an easy kill. I've done every level besides "Cortana" on Heroic but gotta replay the last level since I didn't hit the 15,000 points needed. Double scarab battle is a bitch without there being a checkpoint in between killing each of them. Bubble shields don't stop grunts coming out of nowhere on Ghosts, and I've been playing with the fog skull on so that doesn't help.
 
This is going to sound newbish but...

Throughout my time playing the game, I haven't really understood the purpose for the "Spiker" (that brute SMG.)
 
Well, I just turned my system on, and it would just stay at the 360 logo (before the dashboard). So I was like wtf and took the game out and it went directly into the dash.

Turns out the Halo3 game is cracked in the middle about a half an inch. This game worked fine 2hrs before so not sure if my 360 did it or not. But now that I think about it, I think CE case did it. My Essentials cd was scratched to death but the game worked fine up until now.

This just sucks cause its 3am and I have nothing else to do but play halo and now I can't do that. :(

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dear mr arenas, please understand that your xp level is factor to your experience

you win you get 1 xp, you lose you get 0, and if you quit you get -1

the purpose is to show your overall experience in the game, so if your cheating by your inflating your social wins it reflects your overall xp, as this is universal in all gametypes it thereby falsely presents you as being more experienced then you are regardless of your rank, which in itself might have been obtained falsely

in closing, take your cheating ass off halo 3, and spend more time cheating the fans, your organization, and the league with your overpaid injury prone cheating ass

signed,
neogaf
 
Darko said:
VEETO VEEETOOO VEEETOOO VETTTTOOOo..... every fucking game...

The funny thing is that some bitches whine because I don't use my mic... Meanwhile, I mute every single person the second that I enter a game. :lol
 
I prefer Legendary in Halo 3 than Halo, its just so different to the game i played on Heroic. Kind of depressed that i will never finish the fight (due to a scratched disk that does not play the final cuscene).

Might have to borrow my mates disk. Gotta get back into multi too
 
Well, just went to gamestop to replace my game, and guest what, the replacement CE was scratched shitless. I swear whatever idiot design the CE cases needs to be fired. Its a piece of shit.

Then gamestop has me paying 3$ for a replacement warranty a 2nd time even though the damn replacement they gave me was just as fecked up.

Blah halo... end of the world.
 
goldenpp72 said:
Is anyone else having a lot of inconsistent games in halo 3? I mean I was like like 33 or something and now im like 29, I either end up getting 3 terrible noobs against 4 gods or I myself end up dragging 3 good players down :/

Definately. I feel like I'm always on the cusp of breaking out and playing really well all the time, but I continue to lose about 90% of the melee encounters because of the bullshit system and I seem to just have bad luck. I'm sitting at 1.09 (Lvl 19 highest rank) in ranked games right now and I just know I am better than that.
 
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